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May 25, 2012 by kevinstilley

Ethics & Morality – select quotes

Whatever is, is right.
~ Democritus

Tell me what a person believes and I’ll tell you what he’ll do.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To expect Christian conduct from a person who is not born again is heresy.
~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~ T.S. Eliot, in Murder In the Cathedral

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
~ Edward Roscoe Murrow

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
~ Leon Trotsky

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